Fire sticks are like $20, my Shield was $200. VERY different market. Amazon sells you the hardware for cheap so they can make money off of ads.
I've always thought the Fire Stick was the worst streaming platform, by a long way.
The ads are intrusive, and the recommendations are only for Amazon video.
I don't get why people buy fire sticks.
Complaining about the banners on Android TV when stuff like this exists is the definition of a first world problem.
That Škoda is super cheap tho.
Yep. Love the dependability of my 4k fire sticks. Hate the obnoxious flashing ads continually on the screen. Just like I like my Alexa devices, but Amazon keeps finding ways to have Alexa squeeze ads/ways to buy onto simple requests like What is the weather? etc.
I hope Amazon keep the crown of ads for years to come because I am an Android TV user.😀
But I don't have high hopes for the new Android TV team too, zero ethics...
Pi-Hole blocks ads on Roku and Google TV, not sure if it would work for Amazon.
(Runs on a lot of things, not just Raspberry Pi, by the way)
That's outrageous. I hope people will vote with their wallets.
Im suddenly getting German adds on my firestick homescreen. I'm in UK.
will it come with a new nvidia shield
Bought my dad chromecast with gtv for xmas. Trying to get him out of that amazon trash ecosystem
The issue becomes of the difference in price. I understand Amazon's business model is subsidized hardware (that Fire tablet that has ads, costs you less). But now Google decided to join in and add its ads to your Shield. Did you get any rebate/refund for offsetting your costly Shield though? No. :/
Indian firesticks didn't have ads until some time late April of this year. These and the middle banner got added to Indian registered firesticks then.
Hey man, at least you can still see most of y our apps in the other half of the screen.
GoogleTV shows you like 5-6 apps in one tiny strip and the rest of the screen is filled with shitty ads.
Its obscene!
I mean, Škodas are great cars tho. Really cheap repairs too.
The shoehorning of advertising upon consumers who buy expensive products is ridiculous. Hell, I’d pay cash money to NOT deal with that.
Would pihole help?
Dude this really sucks
I know you can message Amazon and get it turned off for free but is this also true for the firestick?
At least ads on Google TV are about tv shows or movies, that’s why I don’t mind, but if they ever start advertising anything else, I’ll be so pissed.